“We discuss those things week in and week out,” coach Mike Mularkey said. “Some of it, you’ve got to be careful where you are on the field when you do it. There are a lot of things that go into the thought process with it.”

GROWING TREND

The Jaguars are following the trend of teams using the no-huddle throughout the game.

Through the season’s first four weeks, STATS, Inc. said 14.6 of all NFL snaps were in the no-huddle, compared with 9.3 percent last year and 7.1 percent just four years ago.

“It is the direction the league is going right now,” Jaguars quarterbacks coach Greg Olson said. “It’s a lot to put on the plate of a young quarterback, but a lot of these guys come out of college having done it and in similar systems.”

Early in the season, the no-huddle leaders were Baltimore, Denver, New England and Green Bay — all teams with veteran quarterbacks.

The Jaguars drilled on it in practice with second-year quarterback Blaine Gabbert early in the year, but didn’t use it.

As Gabbert became more efficient during the week, the Jaguars’ coaches put it into the first-half game plan against the Colts last week.

The Jaguars see advantages regardless of when the no-huddle is used.

“It does a couple different things,” center Brad Meester said. “It’s obviously a good change-up pace-wise. … Especially up front on the line, we like that to get the offense going. Last week, it was working so well, you keep going with it.”

ANATOMY OF A DRIVE

The Patriots use one-word calls that describe the formation, route combination/run direction and pass protection/run scheme (which they adopted from the University of Oregon). The Jaguars drop a few more words at the line of scrimmage.

The process starts with Olson talking to Gabbert via the radio. The transmission automatically cuts off with 15 seconds left on the play clock. Olson goes into action as soon as officials place the football, giving Gabbert four pieces of information.

■ Down and distance (first-and-10, second-and-2, etc.).

■ Area of the field (right hash, left hash or middle).

■ Defensive personnel on the field (base, nickel or dime).

■ And, as Olson calls them, “possible prompts,” things to look for before the snap.

Given that information, then it’s up to Gabbert.

“We have a bank of plays that he has to choose from that based on our formation and the personnel of the defense — he has a number of plays he can go to,” Olson said. “I’m the voice in the helmet but a lot of it comes from during the week — it takes a tremendous amount of preparation on the quarterback’s part and he’s done it very well.”

Down 3-0 to Indianapolis, the Jaguars went no-huddle at the 7:27 mark of the first quarter.

For the entire nine-play drive, the Jaguars used “13” personnel — three receivers (Robinson, Justin Blackmon and Cecil Shorts), one tight end (Marcedes Lewis) and one running back (Rashad Jennings, except when he was replaced by Montell Owens for the final play).

NO HURRY

One play served as an example of how the Jaguars still took their time even though they didn’t huddle.

The situation was a second-and-2 at the Jaguars 45-yard line. 6:31: Gabbert was under center. … 6:26: Out from under center, Gabbert called out signals and made hand gestures to his receivers. … 6:18: Snap. … 6:13: Jennings ran for 4 yards.

From the start of the drive, the tempo created plays 17, 8, 4, 11, 2, 10 and 2 yards.

“It kind of gets a defense back on their heels and in some ways, it can calm a defense down a little bit,” Meester said. “If you keep huddling up, they can bring whatever.”

Now the Jaguars have to finish a no-huddle drive with points. Things stalled when Gabbert threw slightly behind Jennings on a 6-yard pass to the left flat, Shorts couldn’t corral a 9-yard pass that was a little high and outside and then Josh Scobee missed a 44-yard field goal.

“It’s been one of our most productive drives,” Mularkey said. “We just haven’t finished the drives. We’ve done a lot of things in moving the ball with it, but then we’ve thrown an interception off a tip ball or we’ve fumbled it or we’ve killed ourselves with a penalty.”

I think the no huddle offense is a great idea! They are wandering aimlessly anyway! I think the no huddle defense should be given thought also!
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I think we should put the offense and the defense on the field at the same time. Force the refs to throw more flags for too many men on the field.

With twenty-two against eleven, the Jaguars will certainly make something happen. Penalties that consume the clock.

Refs'll be forced to measure millimeters when assessing the penalty as half the distance to the goal. An opposing team will be crazy to decline a half the distance to the goal, first down. Refs can split atoms at the goal line, but they can't reward an unearned TD.

When the 1:00 PM game reaches 10:00 PM in real-time, the NFL will be forced to call the game a tie, we win half.

Sixteen games leaves us at 0-0-16, the same as eight and eight, in a way. Teams have gone 16-0 before. Teams have gone 0-16 before. The Jaguars will be the first team to 0-0-16! And without replacement refs, too!

At the end of the season we've gotten double our money for Maurice Jones-Drew, taught the defense more about offenses, taught the offense more about defenses, cut down on punts, cut down on turnovers, rested the team all year so they are good and fresh for the playoffs.

Twenty-two on eleven, the next greatest formation since the 10-1 offensive formation for electric football. Pinch, baby. Pinch!

Happy Punting!
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"When they signed me, I thought they must have looked at film and tape and know what my strength is. My strength is hang time. I have a strong leg and put the ball down the middle of the field with a lot of hang time," P Matt Turk October 11th, 2011

We're 9 games into the season and NOW the Jaguars are ready to experiment with the "no huddle"? This is yet another indictment on this franchise and another nail in the coffin of the front office and coaching staff. Folks, this is nothing more than an all out attempt to beat the Texans at any cost, so that the Jaguars spin doctors (Sexton and Oesher) can continue issuing their diagnosis that there's nothing wrong with this team and the needle is pointing up. Even if the Jags were to escape Houston with a one point victory on Sunday, the spin doctors will somehow paint this as a major victory and the Jaguars are the second best team in the division. Everyone in the Jaguars organization is banking on a victory this Sunday. Afterward they can continue to tell us that the team is not as bad as it appears, and just needs some missing parts. That will also crack the door just enough to "stay the course" and not interrupt the current chemistry with a complete house cleaning. For the sake of better days ahead on the field, and the long term future of the Jaguars in Jacksonville, I hope the Jags get blown out of Reliant Stadium on Sunday.

“We have a bank of plays that he has to choose from that based on our formation and the personnel of the defense — he has a number of plays he can go to,” Olson said. “I’m the voice in the helmet but a lot of it comes from during the week — it takes a tremendous amount of preparation on the quarterback’s part and he’s done it very well.”
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And we're supposed to give the Mularkey coaching staff a pass?

Why? They aren't even man enough to call plays and live with the results. This leaves no choice, but to blame Blaine. What a bunch of cowards. This team has no backbone. Just spineless cowards from the top down.

The Team Gene Regime is gone. Why wait?

Happy Punting!
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"When they signed me, I thought they must have looked at film and tape and know what my strength is. My strength is hang time. I have a strong leg and put the ball down the middle of the field with a lot of hang time," P Matt Turk October 11th, 2011

A "deep pass" for the Jaguars is one that travels 10 yards,and is seldom seen. You can always count on a 2 yard pass,on 3rd down,when we need at least 7 or more yards for a 1st, and it never works. Guess the coaching staff is still learning the game.